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I Still think that they should have uniform punishments for infractions. You can easily add escalators for grievous infractions and repeat offenders as well as injuries. Players ,coaches, fans and even commentators would complain less. Once a player reaches a level where he is considered to be dangerous start doubling his suspensions. If a player just had 10 games off and he knows his next one is 20 you will see his stick and hits get lower and his play be less dirty. There should be absolutely no favouritism or guessing of infractions. If its a hit to the head, 5 games, pre-meditated? 5 more. Was the player injured? Another 5. Is the player a repeat offender? Suspension doubled. Let's have some damn uniform punishments instead of "well my opinion is.." Punishments.

Are we still talking about Byfuglien? I'm talking about everyone else that gets let off, yes Byfuglien should have gotten more games. I've been saying thay the whole time. I'm just wondering why certain teams get suspensions and others don't. I guarantee if Tofoli does the exact same thing to slater, we aren't having this discussion.

Yes Winnipeg lost a team because they had financial troubles. Yet the yotes have been having financial troubles for the better part of a decade and Bettman has bent over backwards to keep that team in Arizona including cancelling sales to move the team out of Arizona and going so far as to buy the team until a suitable owner could be found, something he has never done for any Canadian team. If the NHL was favouring Canadian teams, bettman would have cancelled any sales of and saved both Canadian teams he lost. You consider losing three teams, including a second Atlanta expansion, having 6 expansion teams in the red, with minimal chance of them getting out and residing over 2 and a half lockouts a success? Well please hire me for your business then, I'll make you proud.

Spare it, if your someone whose been playing hockey your whole life, you know exactly where the turn buckle is. I mean come on he lined him right up as he crossed in.

Hahaha that's laughable. Bettman is one of the reasons Winnipeg lost a team and also quashed numerous deals to bring one back in order to keep hockey in the desert. The league prospers but the argument could easily be made that it could prosper more if it recognized that Canadian markets are always going to do better financially than teams in Arizona and Sunrise Florida. Have a look at the bottom earning teams in the league, most of them are relocation and expansion teams into American markets, all spearheaded by Bettman. All of them failing to profit.

You two seem to think I'm trying to stick up for him. Not the case. You're making it seem like someone has to do exactly what Buff did to get a suspension. Literally a few weeks ago Tofoli smashed a players head into the boards, that player was injured and also could have had their neck broken. It was pointed out by the media that because LA was in the playoff race, he didn't get a suspension. The biggest piece of evidence is Charas hit on Pacioretty which there was absolutely no consequences for and he actually broke the guys neck. You want evidence its all around you.

Blah blah blah yeah we know he deserved it. I'm not defending what he did, II'm calling out the NHL for what they haven't done. No need to start another thread this isnt the Dustin Byfuglien suspension thread. This is a general NHL playoffs thread and theirs no way to defend the fact that American teams, especially ones in playoff races, get special treatment when it comes to discipline. Its a fact players in American markets have done similar things without consequence. It's only once its a Canadian team does the media pick it up and the NHL actually does something. The entire DoPS is a joke, under Bettman whom is a walking joke of a comissioner.

Staal on NY did almost the exact same thing to Crosby awhile back and never even got a fine. No one is saying what he did wasn't vicious. But to say the DoPS didn't suspend him and not any of NYR or LA or Tampas players because of their favouritism is ridiculous. It's no secret that the NHL favours American teams. Tofoli got of scot free a few weeks ago because "LA is in the playoff hunt". Don't get me wrong I'm not saying bufd should get nothing, I'm saying the NHL has no credibility when handing out suspensions. I guarantee you if Staal did the exact same thing to slater, the media wouldn't be talking about it and it would have been a 1-2 game suspension if that. The fact thay Buff plays the way he does and does it on a canadian team puts a target on his back. He deserves more than 4 games for what he did but there is no way it gets that kind of attention south of the border and the DoPS and medias has proven that with various attacks on players before this who walked away. The NHL really needs to put in righting exact rules on attacks and what the consqeuences of those attacks are. So we don't have certain players being favoured over others.

And sometimes they even fed them!

Prior to Harper, yes. Under Harper, no.

With the way Myers has been playing, minus last game, and the fact that without Buff we seem to take less penalties. I almost wouldn't mind if we could trade Buff for a servicable 3rd line Right Dman and maybe some prospects. Im sure we could easily get that from an Eastern Conference team. I don't want him in the west, so we won't play against him very much.

Blessing in disguise for the Jets. We won 5 of 6 without him. He comes back we win 1 in 3. Jets have lots of defencemen in the ranks waiting for a chance. I just find it funny that buff gets made an example of when Toffoli of the Kings gets away scot free because they NHL can't have their precious LA kings miss the playoffs. I personally think Buff deserves 5 games but the inconsistancy and favouritism of this league under Gary "the lockout" Bettman is atrocious.

Might end up being better for the Jets to lose Buff for the rest of the season. We won 5 of 6 games without him before his return.

Was moore privy to the question before hand? Honestly why would the interviewer have a cup of chemical ready for him to drink, prior to him making the statement. It's not like the question was a trap, he made the statement on his own terms.

It's funny you say that because this article talks about how drinking too much blood can be bad for you because of it's iron content. Not sure about the validity, it's just funny. http://www.livescience.com/15899-drinking-blood-safe.html

Are you saying Glyphosate is harmless and beneficial for humans? He literally said "you can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you." The fact that he refuses to back up his statement by doing the exact thing he said is safe should easily verify that Monsanto is full of shit about their own products. If anyone else wants to attempt to back up his statement, I invite you to drink "a whole quart of it" and please share your results with the forum.

A co-worker of mine showed me and about 15 other people this video at our coffee break today. We had a conversation about Monsanto and the things they have done, One of my co-workers suggested they might be one of the most evil companies to ever exist and almost instantly we all agreed with that statement. When 15 people that represent almost every political stripe available in this country can agree that Monsanto is evil, all I can say is, at least we can all agree on something.

Next year they are doing a lottery for the top 3 picks after that it goes in order of standings. So even if you finish last you're only guranteed the 4th overal pick.

Buffalo will get one of McDavid or Eichel this year, I'd be cheering for that too! As sad as it is what's the point of even trying now? Might as well secure yourself at least one of them.

I did find this on the interwebs, I may look into the book tomorrow when I'm rested. Apparently he has admitted to being a member in 1991 and there's no denying the principles the group was founded on in 1989. It's almost kind of a slap in the face that he ends up attending Mandela's funeral, to pay respects to Mandela after he helped establish a group whose mandate it was to counter the release of Mandela from prison and to continue apartheid in South Africa.

And second hand tobacco smoke is much more deadly, 53,800 people die every single year from second hand smoke from cigarettes and 0, that's right 0, people die annually from second hand smoke from marijuana. Explain to your kids that it's like cigarettes, adults if they so choose to can smoke it and that children shouldn't as it is not good for their development. It's no different than explaining to your kids why adults drink alcohol. Some people love to over complicate things. I seriously doubt your kids are going to run out and buy some anymore than they will cigarettes. It's incredibly odd that you would be so worried about marijuana and so passive about cigarettes when one is clearly exponentially way worse for you than the other.

Vancouver's relaxed weed culture may have been longer than 20 years that's just as far back as I know. I can't vouch for any longer than that. http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/04/30000-attend-420-smoke-downtown-vancouver-videos-photos/ http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/will-a-lawsuit-revive-humboldt-countys-legendary-420-bash-1017 I'd say both Humboldt county and Vancouver are about on par, surprisingly they are both in States/Provinces where the product is still illegal though mostly decriminalized.

Are you okay with your neighbours smoking tobacco on their personal patio while your kids breathe in the second hand smoke in your yard?

You should have visited Vancouver in the last 20 years. It might as well have been legal because you can smoke it right on the street, in front of cops. I've seen it more times than I can count. In fact I did it more times than I can count. The cops gave up on it a long time ago. They mostly go after larger suppliers rather than the average joe consumer. Waste of time to fill out the paper work.

I spend a lot of time in Saskatchewan during winter months for work and it would blackout all but 26 Jets games, which is ridiculous. Basically any Jets games that were broadcast on saturday Hockey Night in Canada were view able, all other monday-thursday and sunday Jets games were blacked out. But when I was back in Richmond, BC there was never a blackout, even for Canucks home games. It really is peculiar. It's not worth it to get gamecenter now but I will be doing this for next season for sure. Even if I can just make it think I'm back in Richmond all the time while I'm in Sask I'd be happy. $99 for a whole season versus $60/month for hd cable is well worth it.